Why an Expo Router App Can Stall on Splash After a Cold-Start Notification Tap
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EDITOR BRIEF
An Expo app sometimes appeared stuck on the splash screen only when opened from a push notification after being terminated. Normal launches and notification taps after startup worked, and the splash screen was not the real issue. The root cause was two startup navigations happening at once: an auth check and a notification route change.
INSIGHTS
This shows how race conditions can hide behind a simple symptom. If you are building navigation in React Native or Expo, add a readiness flag so notification handling waits until authentication or initial routing is finished.
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